EDITOR’S NOTE: This past Veterans Day, The Montana Standard published a feature that included a story on Pfc. Jasper Dawson of Butte, a prisoner of war all throughout World War II. Since his story was ...
"November 1983"--T.p. verso. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!283301~!0#focus ...
"Uncommon courage was a common virtue": this was said of Marines on another island, Iwo Jima. Texas journalist Sloan's excellent research, interviewing and journalistic prose will have readers of this ...
Wiley Tipton was a 22-year-old Marine stationed on Wake Island in 1941 when the Japanese bombing runs began just hours after the Dec. 7 attacks on Pearl Harbor. The bombings continued daily until the ...
Outnumbered and outgunned, they defended Wake Island with unmatched courage! The untold story of WWII’s forgotten battle! 'Threat to Australia': Russian and Indonesian relationship increases Hit new ...
Today in U.S. Naval History - December 11 1941 - Contract establishes the Naval Salvage Service. 1941 - Wake Island Garrison under Commander Winfield Cunningham repulses Japanese invasion force. 1954 ...